MEXICO: Researchers in California say they’ve successfully converted sugarcane biomass into jet fuel in a process that can reduce greenhouse gas emission by as much as 80 percent.
As petroleum prices fluctuate and talk of shortages increases, scientists have increasingly invested time, effort and funds into creating alternatives to petroleum-based fuels.
A wide variety of biomass-derived fuels have been developed and are in use, but a usable jet fuel — with its much more stringent requirements than almost any other fuel — has eluded researchers.
Now a research team from the University of California, writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has described a technique to produce a fuel that meets the requirements for jet aircraft.
“We’ve identified a new route of chemistry with its source from sugars in sugarcane plus some of the so-called waste material called bagasse,” says study co-author Alexis Bell from UC Berkeley.
“We show in this paper how we can put these components together to make jet diesel and lubricants.”
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